Kinetics of Chemical Reactions During Detonation of Mixtures of Organic Substances with Nitric Acid

The kinetics and mechanism of chemical reactions in detonation waves propagating in mixtures of nitric acid with nitroglycol, ethylene glycol dinitrate, and acetic anhydride were studied within the framework of the Dremin—Trofimov theory of the detonation failure diameter. The state parameters in shock and detonation waves were calculated using the SGKR software package. It was shown that the decomposition of mixtures of nitric acid with organic substances in a detonation wave is a complex reaction which includes several stages. Various kinetic models are considered; effective values of the kinetic parameters are calculated for each model and for the entire process.